The Wound Dresser: A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington During the War of the Rebellion

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Preface by Richard Maurice Bucke of London, Ontario, one of Whitman's literary executors as stated on title. Opens with Whitman's poem of the same name, followed by Preface. Text c onsists of Whitman's Civil War journalism for the New York Times and Brooklyn Eagle, followed by the letters he sent home to his mother from the military hospitals of Washington, DC. Myerson A 15.I.b. Show more